Church mergers: Apex Church and Horizon Community Church (Littleton, Col.) merged to become Connections Church; Calvin CRC (Oak Lawn, Ill.) and Calvary Church (Reformed Church in America) are forming a union church.

Synod 2019

Classis Hackensack is asking Synod 2019 (the CRC’s annual general assembly) to approve having an immigration attorney on retainer for the denomination to help current pastors navigate immigration and to assist congregations calling a pastor from outside the U.S. or Canada, to be funded with $50,000 by way of a ministry shares increase.

Other

Classis Alberta South/Saskatchewan urged King’s University in Edmonton, Alta., to uphold the Scripture’s teaching as currently articulated in the Christian Reformed Church on marriage, gender, and sexuality, and asked that the university remove links to LGBTQ-affirming organizations on its website.